Analysis Sheet For Other Related Texts * Name of text: Freedom Writers (2006) Film * The composer of the text: Richard Lagravense Write a brief description of the text‚ mentioning its purpose‚ audience and giving a brief summary of the content: Set in Long Beach California the film ‘Freedom Writers’ is about a young beginning teacher who is soon challenged by a group of Black‚ Latino and Asian gang members who have extreme hate for the new teacher‚ Erin Gruwell. Over time Erin
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Freedom Writers is a movie that tells the story of how a teacher‚ Erin Gruwell influences the education and lives of a group of students at a very diverse high school. As a novice to the classroom Mrs. Gruwell struggles to discover how to help impact her class deemed as misfits‚ and students who are incapable of learning. In beginning to understand the life stories and environments of the students she is able to connect with them as an educator‚ and meet the students where they are. Furthermore she
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different contexts and aspects of each individual’s everyday life. Three texts in which deeply explore both a sense of belonging and a sense of alienation are Steven Herrick’s The simple gift (2000)‚ the 2006 movie directed by Richard Lagravanese Freedom writers and Armin Greder’s picture book The Island. Each text promotes a strong sense of belonging but also a strong sense of alienation and rejection through the use of social values and attitudes‚ cultural identity and personal relationships. These
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movies and books have been produced in order to inform the people of the hardships of discrimination. One movie in particular‚ “Freedom Writers”‚ has helped people to empathize with those affected by racism and discrimination. The message of overcoming adversity in “Freedom Writers” strongly relates to the real-life social issues in the world today. The movie “Freedom Writers” is an amazing story of students
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challenge us. Reacting to these challenges‚ people take many different routes. How we respond to these bumps in the road is what defines us as individuals. In Freedom Writers we can see how the students face difficulties in their lives and in school; and how they choose to react to those challenges. The students of the film Freedom Writers choose to respond to challenge in three different ways; they give up‚ give in‚ or give it all they have. The first way we see the students answer to the challenges
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Freedom Writers Erin Gruwell (Hilary Swank) is a first-time teacher who wants to make a difference. She has little idea of what she’s getting into when she volunteers to be an English teacher at a newly integrated high school in Long Beach‚ California. Her students are divided along racial lines and have few aspirations beyond basic survival. When Erin discovers how much of their lives are blighted by racial prejudice‚ she introduces them to books like ’The Diary of Anne Frank’ and begins
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You ask me "What freedom means to me? " I don’t really think about these things. Now that I am I think that I have something to say about it. Freedom is something that shouldn’t be taken for granted. Freedom for me is something we abuse. For example freedom of speech we use that like its nothing people in other places don’t have that freedom. Most people don’t think about freedom as we do stuff during are day. We don’t usually think "How did we get our freedom? " well that’s a good question. People
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The word freedom has a different meaning for different people. Freedom to me means being free from a single ruler who dictates and who goes by his own rules. Freedom has affected America immensely and has brought upon many individuals for the thought of having freedom for the first time. We sometimes take our freedom for granted and do not think of how people dream of having freedom. America has freedom because it was fought for and lives were taken for the future generations to come and enjoy
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Freedom of Speech America’s Founding Fathers‚ Thomas Jefferson and James Madison‚ believed so strongly in the right to free speech that they wrote it in the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution‚ which states in part‚ “Congress shall make no law restricting an establishment of religion‚ or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech‚ or of the press; or the rights of the people peaceably to assemble‚ and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances
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Americans are guaranteed many freedoms by their constitution. Freedom of speech is one of the most wonderful freedoms. Throughout history‚ great social reforms have begun when one person exercising his or her freedom of speech. With this same freedom‚ others have victimized and endangered entire groups of people for their uniqueness. Free speech has been a controversial topic for many years. There are both positive and negative sides of free speech. Some people want to protect it as a human right;
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